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I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.